Quotes About Morality

How wrong it is to take the good for bad, purely at random, or take the bad for good.

SOPHOCLES (born ca. 496 B.C., died after 413) was one of the three major authors of Greek tragedy. Of his 123 plays, only seven survive in full. Antigone, written and first performed in the late 440s B.C., is among his most often revived plays; its strong roles, and its conflict between individual morality (championed by a brave young woman) and the overbearing political needs of the state, have never lost their compelling interest through the generations.

Time alone can bring the just man to light— the criminal you can spot in one short day.

Evil gains work their punishment.

If he cannot reap his profits fairly cannot restrain himself from outrage— mad, laying hands on the holy things untouchable!

If thou dost count a virtue stubbornness, Unschooled by reason, thou art much astray.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Apenas quero declarar que, sem saber, 435 manténs as relações mais torpes e sacrílegas com a criatura que devias venerar, alheio à sordidez de tua própria vida!

Bu durumda dostlar?m, ne ak?ll? ne dindar olmak mümkündür; kötülüÄŸün içinde bizi kötülüÄŸe zorlayan güç çok büyüktür.

I'm so immersed in all this evil, how could I not be evil too?

I should have praise and honor for what I have done: All these men here would praise me. Were their lips not frozen shut with fear of you. Ah the good fortune of kings. Licensed to say and do whatever they please. Antigone to Theben's king Creon

DoÄŸru davran?p davranmad???n? tekrar bir düÅŸün istersen, çünkü en iyi seçenek korkuya neden olmayand?r.s.34

S takva djela dika mi je mrijet, Jer draga do njeg - do dragog ?u u grob le?, U?iniv sveti grijeh. Ta dulje svi?at se Ja svijetu moram onom negol' ovome, Jer ondje dovijek ?u po?ivat. Svi?a l' se Onako tebi, zakon božji pogazi!

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

Upravo loša savest može u?initi život zanimljivim.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

Stay alert. The big moral crossroads in your life may not come labeled as such.

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.

I'm sure if you could survey the unborn they would prefer the chance for life over the options of solar power.

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.

When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.

We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.